Here's the situation: right now, industry lobbyists are pressuring key decision-makers of twelve countries to sign a secretive agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Obama administration even wants fast-track authority to force...

Industry lobbyists are pushing the TPP, which threatens everything that we care about: jobs, the environment, Internet freedom--and democracy. That's why they're doing it in secret. We can stop this corporate power grab.

This disastrous trade policy focuses on the cheapest goods and services, regardless of costs to the environment, communities or human lives. This will affect food, fishing, agriculture, energy extraction, retail goods, and banking - literally all sectors

We spent a number of hours with him talking about a whole range of subjects. He's truly a remarkable person, very centered, very engaging, has a wicked sense of humor, very up on world events--following everything he can in the U.S....

An odd thing is happening in the world's self-declared pinnacle of democracy. No one -- except a handful of elected officials and an army of contractors -- is allowed to know how America's surveillance leviathan works.

It's evil, lawless and authoritarian. And as NSA leaker Snowden has shown us, its aims are to be all-powerful. ... The Executive Branch is also America's most undemocratic and thus unamerican institution.

The Fed doled out $12.3 trillion in near-zero interest loans, using the American people as collateral, demanding nothing in return, other than a bunch of toxic assets in some cases. The American Dream is O-V-E-R. Welcome to the neo-feudal-fascist state.

VIDEO: The former Democratic senator from Alaska discusses his presidential campaign, his role in the releasing of the Pentagon Papers and his support for NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign, a grassroots group seeking to place an initiative

Wikileaks was only given a couple of hours notice "by email" and was not even represented at the hearing where a U.S. judge took such a drastic step attempting to totally shut down an important information outlet.

The code is VERY clear. We (citizens' organizations, including the EOP members) have the right to have "representatives in attendance at any and ALL phases of the election". - Section 15004(b). (Tom Courbat is one of the good guys -- a valiant warrior!)

Less than a month after President Bush signed legislation overhauling the Freedom of Information Act, the measure's main Senate backers are accusing the White House of planning to scuttle a special FOIA office in violation of the law.

We know now that the CIA kept from the 9/11 Commission tapes of al Qaeda suspects in violation of law. But why isn't mainstream media (MSM) reporting about other tapes U.S. Intelligence kept from the 9/11 Commission?